Next month, city students take the standardized tests on which their progress, and perhaps the fates of their teachers and schools, depend—all amid a debate over testing that, it turns out, is nothing new.

Here is a list that shows how state lawmakers are moving to expand charter schools and make it easier for charter managment companies to come into a state and set up shop. As a result, the door is being open to huge investment opportunites for land, buildings, and leasing opportunities, all on the taxpayers’ dime.

Can you identify the largest charter school network in the United States? You may be surprised to learn that it is operated by people in and associated with the Gulen Movement, a secretive and controversial Turkish religious sect

An education researcher looks at the data that was being used as part of a national study released by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and affiliated Cox newspapers and expresses some concerns. Plus a response from the AJC.

The most interesting part of the new Condoleezza Rice-Joel Klein report, which bemoans how American national security is threatened by the poor state of public education, is not in the body of the document itself. The real story is in the dissents at the end of the report.

The biggest red flag in the new Metlife survey of American teachers: There has been a 70% increase, over the past two years, in the number of teachers who are likely to leave the profession in the next five years. That amounts to about 1 million teachers, and doesn’t include the roughly 1 million teachers who are baby boomers approaching retirement age.

The new report released today by a Council of Foreign Relations task force chaired by Joel Klein and Condoleezza Rice seems to want very much to be seen as the new Nation at Risk, the seminal 1983 report that warned that America’s future was threatened by a “rising tide of mediocrity” in the country’s public schools.

A professor at the University of Georgia writes: “Although I agree with very little else of Rick Perry’s vision for America, I think that either abolishing or thoroughly reconceiving this office would make for a better nation, given that for the most part it has done teachers and students far more harm than good.”

While it is customary to give three cheers to something that we want to celebrate or commemorate, the author says that when it comes to literacy instruction in America’s schools over the past decade, he can only manage two cheers for No Child Left Behind.

Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp wrote in an article that she was upset when her child had a young inexperienced teacher. Why, then, a teacher wants to know, does Kopp run an organization that places young inexperienced teachers in schools filled with at-risk students?

Education historian Diane Ravitch writes that the governor of Louisiana is waging a broad assault on public education in the name of school reform, closing traditional public schools while expanding privately managed charter schools, vouchers, etc.

The four Republican presidential candidates vying in states around the country on Super Tuesday all addressed supportive crowds Tuesday night as the results came rolling in. What did they say about education?

There’s one important thing missing from the effort in Florida to pass a bill that would institute a “parent trigger” allowing parents to force specific changes at low-performing public schools: support from Florida parents.

The American public education system is going through historic changes but you couldn’t tell that if you have been following the Republican contest to tap a candidate to take on President Obama in the fall. Here’s where the four Republicans competing on Super Tuesday stand on education issues.